Monday, October 13, 2014

This summer was a crazy one for SE Michigan. We've had hail, wind, rain, and floods that have just been bananas. BANANAS. One day last month, the internet kept warning me that yet another storm was coming...yippee, right?

And storm did it ever. We lost power on a Friday evening, and didn't get it back til Sunday night. Sooo, what to do with a weekend full of power outages? Can't break out the sewing machine. Can't break out the power tools. Can't even cook because I don't have a gas stove, and the refrigerator has become a bacterial death trap.Luckily, I had just cleaned out the fridge the week before, emptying bottles with expiration dates of 2011 stamped on them. Yikes. Apparently I didn't need a power outage for my fridge to be a death trap. Anyone else clicking out of this blog to go check your condiment bottle expiration dates right now? You might want to.Let's wait a minute while people do that (insert Musak here).Everyone back? So, after the Great Fridge Cleanout of 2014, I bought a few plastic bins at Target, and labeled them with a few of the most commonly grouped items for easy reach. Even though I have a small fridge, things still seem to get pushed to the back and lost for eternity, shriveling up and dying, only to be discovered weeks later with a, "Hey, I could have used that if I had known it was back there!" Lucky for my wallet, when the power went out, I hadn't yet gotten around to replacing all of those staples that I usually kept in the fridge. Win for big grocery shopping procrastination!!So, with an empty fridge, no power, and plenty of time on my hands, what is there to do? Well, lots of things, but only one I'm going to actually write about in a public forum. Get your minds out of the gutter, people...I'm talking about going to the movies, which no one wants to hear about.After my last post detailing my lovely little Wine Sign for my sister, I thought I could just pull more wood scraps out of the garage and paint. So I did. I'm not really feeling a detailed instructional play by play on this, so I'll just show you a few pictures and then reveal the final product.

Can you spot me in the glass table reflection? It's the blog version of Where's Waldo!

Add some tape in your favorite geometric shapes!

Slap on some mastic!

Layer on some paint!

Keep on layering!

Take a picture!

Then take a closeup!

I have no clue what I'm going to do with this. I'm not even a huge fan of modern art pieces like this one, probably because when I see them hanging in a gallery, I think, "Why would I pay thousands of dollars for this when I could make it myself?" Annnnd I think I just proved my point.In honor of my Storm Happened, Lines are Down, DTE Can't Work Fast Enough, No Power weekend, this piece is titled, "Edison."

About Me

I like to pretend that I'm Martha Stewart...minus the jailtime. Who am I kidding, though? I craft and decorate my house on a charter school salary. (Not familiar with charter schools? Take a public school teacher's salary and cut it in half. Ummm, yep.) I don't have a design degree. I am not an architect. I don't take woodworking classes. And I certainly don't have a bunch of hookups that get me free stuff or things on the cheap! I have a regular house, with the regular tools you'd find in any garage. I hope you're inspired by my mediocrity!